Reg E Hicks' Adventures of Tightrope Tim strip ran in the Sunbeams supplement from 1941 to 1949 and to the best of my knowledge was one of the strips that carried through the paper shortage years when the supplement was reduced to a single folded piece of paper. Look at the four colour intensity! The quickly dashed off plate printed off register four colour seperations!
Over The Fence - Syd Miller
First seven weeks of Over the Fence by Syd Miller as featured in the ABC Weekly from it’s first issue published 2nd December 1939. The ABC Weekly was published from 1939 until 1959 and featured a wealth of Australian cartoonists during it’s publication history.
2nd Dec 1939
9th Dec 1939
16th Dec 1939
23rd Dec 1939
30th Dec 1939
6th Jan 1940
13 Jan 1940
Newspaper Sports Cartoons - The Age
16th April 1937
26th April 1937
6th Jan 1937
24th March 1937
Sports cartoons from Melbourne newspaper The Age published in 1937. I’m not sure who the cartoonist is, the signature is a little indistinct but I suspect it is the work of Reg Hicks an émigré from England in 1921 who had worked for the Argus prior to starting at the Age in 1937. Initially in 1937 Hicks was contributing juvenile strips for the children’s section, Betty and Bob See The World and Willy and Wally, before moving onto adventure strips which included the 100 page serialised epic The Space Patrol.
Mike Steel Desert Rider - Roger Rowe & Yaroslav Horak - August 16 1965 Woman's Day
An Instalment from the Mike Steel serial that ran for almost a decade in the Australian magazine Woman’s Day during the 1960’s. By 1965 artist Yaroslav had immigrated to England where he would take over art duties on the James Bond newspaper strip the following year. I presume most of his Mike Steel art was created in the UK and mailed over to Sydney.
Sunbeams Comics Supplement 9th December 1944 - Ginger Meggs
Created by Jimmy Bancks in 1921, Ginger Meggs is currently being celebrated in an exhibition at the Sydney Museum. The Ginger Meggs comic below featured in the children's four page Sunbeams supplement accompanying Melbourne paper The Sun News-Pictorial published 9th December, 1944.
